Four Oaks, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falmouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41040. The Survey maps it on the Falmouth quadrangle.

Four Oaks within Pendleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1930 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Four Oaks in 2000, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 February 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pendleton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Four Oaks in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Four Oaks	$5,000	Multiple trees were downed south of Falmouth.
January 2023	Flash Flood	Four Oaks	-	Water was flowing across Ambrose Wright Road.
January 2023	Flash Flood	Four Oaks	-	Water was flowing over Blanket Creek Road.
May 2020	Flood	Four Oaks	-	High water was reported on a portion of Liberty Ridge Road.
September 2018	Flood	Four Oaks	-	Several roads were closed throughout Pendleton County due to high water.
April 2015	Flood	Four Oaks	-	High water covered Ambrose Wright Road near Blanket Creek.

Every storm recorded in Pendleton County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hayes	2.7 miles	10
Falmouth	3.0 miles	10
McKinneysburg	3.8 miles	11
Fruit Hill (historical)	4.2 miles	11
Bachelors Rest	4.4 miles	6
Morgan	4.8 miles	9
Browning Corner	5.2 miles	7
Callensville (historical)	5.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508029. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.